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color:#1F497D'>Here we go again. I have a bunch of Arminta Jane’s in my
family. I wonder if there was a famous person named Arminta Jane?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Dale<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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[mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Paulette<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 15, 2009 9:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> or-roots mail list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [or-roots] Unusual first names<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Thanks for the info on
"Zilphia." And, yes, Echo Gladness Royce is a wonderful name! I always
thought my mother's name, Vella, was odd, and her sister was Persis. For some
reason, I think my favorite family names are Andrew Jackson Tatum and his wife
Arminta Jane.<br>
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color:black'>-----Original Message----- <br>
From: Roy Blaine <br>
Sent: Jun 15, 2009 4:58 PM <br>
To: or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us <br>
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Unusual first names <br>
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I suspect Zilphia comes from the biblical Zilpa or Zilpah - servant of Leah,
Jacob's wife. In my family it appears as Zilfie and I suspect is a source of
the more common name Zelda, also in my family.<br>
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Now that we're sharing, my grandmother's brothers included Hiram
("Uncle Pete") and Oscar ("Uncle Gent") Wheeler just to
name a few good ol' Silk Creek boys.<br>
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Roy N. Blaine<br>
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:10:47
-0700<br>
From: cjpjoppe@yahoo.com<br>
To: or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<br>
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Unusual first names<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>From another confessed unusual "first name" collector,
isn't Zilphia one of the biblical names? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>My family had some biblical doozies - Jeptha (J.C.),
Enoch(Sprig), Ashnah and Zetta (Jenny) - all of them used nicknames -
the ones in parentheses. Another branch from the deep south included
ArieMae (Mae), WynoDean, MattieSue and WillaJean (Jean). ArieMae's
brothers (after the firstborn son getting the father's name and being
dubbed Junior) were named Red, Brown, Blue and Green... Red went on
to name his daughter PinkieMae...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>My grandmother (ArieMae) said when you were expecting, you
were supposed to holler the name you were thinking about as loud as you
could from the back porch to see if anybody else answered to it - and if it
was a good easy name to holler. If nobody answered to it, then you
could use that name for your kid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Out of all that I've come across, my favorite unusual was
Echo Gladness Royce.<br>
<br>
carole<br>
cjpjoppe@yahoo.com<br>
... unwrap each day as a precious gift<br>
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--- On <b>Mon, 6/15/09, Cuprum4445@aol.com <i><Cuprum4445@aol.com></i></b>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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From: Cuprum4445@aol.com <Cuprum4445@aol.com><br>
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Unusual first names<br>
To: or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<br>
Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 9:05 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I'm reminded
of two friends who "collected" unusual first names, before
they had home computers. They hand wrote all the names
alphabetically in pencil, so they could erase & add more names.
When that got too messy, they'd rewrite the whole list. I didn't
believe them until they showed us their lists at the Family
HIstory Center.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Before
my PC & copy machine, I'd hand write family group sheets & ancestor
charts to share with relatives. Ooh! I was much younger
then. Modern technology can be frustrating at times, but I wouldn't go
back to the "old days" of genealogy. </span><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Unusual
names can sometimes be a clue to ancestors but yes, names go in trends.
Just look at the names young mothers give their children today.
Pity the child who was named King Benjamin Peck - he went by K. B.
Sometimes when a person is named after a family member,
they use their middle name. Nicknames also make searching family
hard. Census enumerators had to guess how to spell illiterate
immigrants' names. Some names may have been the parents' idea of what
career she wanted her child to achieve - setting the goal. The Peck
family were in the wrong country to expect their son to become
"King" though. Oh well!</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Gerrie</span><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>In a message dated 6/15/2009 9:35:09 A.M. Mountain Daylight
Time, dharguess@coastline.edu writes:</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=ecmsonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Once again I have to comment on the interesting names that
people gave their children back in those days. My James Ellison Howell
who was born in Tennessee had a brother names Squire Howell. He also
named one of his sons (a twin) Doctor Carswell Howell. When I was doing
the genealogy I couldn’t help think that these people had delusions of
grandeur but now I think they must have just been fad names at the
time. Lafayette was another common name at this time in history.
I must have at least six Lafayette’s.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=ecmsonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Dale</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=ecmsonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>P.S. I have friend named Zilpha that is a pretty unusual
name.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=ecmsonormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Anthony Moore married
Zilphia Haines (daughter of Bethanah/Bethany Haines) in Frederick, Virginia.
They were Quakers. They moved to Tennessee. Their son David Moore married
"out of unity" to Margaret Sherman in Tennessee. This was in the
Lone Mountain area of NE Tennessee - near Grainger, Hawkins, Greene, and
Claiborne counties, TN. Of many kids, David Moore had two sons I know a lot
about : Squire Moore and Alfred Moore. Squire Moore's first wife was Rebecca
Capps. They are the parents of my great great grandmother Lucinda Jane Moore
Sumner b. About 1831 in TN. She married Samuel Sumner Jr. (b. Abt. 1829 Clark
Co., IN) in Linn County, Missouri. After Rebecca died, Squire married again
to Celia Catherine Anderson Curtis and had about 5 more kids; his second wife
already had many kids so there were about 15 altogether. <br>
<br>
Many of David Moore's children married the children of Fielding Lewis
of the Lone Mt. area of TN. For example, Lucinda Moore, the youngest sister
of Squire and Alfred Moore married Fielding Lewis Jr. They had moved to MO
and then left for Oregon in 1852. On the Oregon Trail, Lucinda and three of
her children died. Fielding Jr. and the other children settled in Oregon. I
have more details if you want them.<br>
<br>
Lucinda Jane Moore Sumner's favorite cousin was Margaret Melissa Moore,
daughter of Alfred Moore and Mahulda Bullard. They are buried near each other
in Etna Cemetery, Polk County. Lucinda's half brother James Robinson Moore
married Nancy Ellen McClintock and they came to Oregon as well and lived near
the Etna Church in Polk County. Nancy Ellen's sister Eliza Frances McClintock
married James Edgar, and they are buried in Etna Cemetery as well. Samuel and
Lucinda Jane Moore Sumner's son James Clark Sumner married Lucinda Frances
Tremain in Linn Co., MO; she was the daughter of John Hardy Tremain and Mary
Ann McClintock - a sister of Nancy Ellen and Eliza. These sisters were the
daughters of Findley McClintock and his wife Nancy Sumner. "We are all
related."<br>
<br>
Paulette</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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